For Section 13 here is your feedback from the Spot PL - you had a bunch of feedback from Linny and you did a great job of getting all those numbers into the reading! Just a couple of items missed and some numbers that were out of sequence -

For Section 13 here is your feedback from the Spot PL - you had a bunch of feedback from Linny and you did a great job of getting all those numbers into the reading! Just a couple of items missed and some numbers that were out of sequence -

Hi Lynda,
Thank you for the feedback. My trusty headphones just broke, so I may need to figure out how to record those new numbers. (I had an unimaginable time trying to record the right numbers in the right sequence them copy and paste them to the right spots..in the first place! )

--Rachel--Dumbledore watched the doe fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.

First, you have a hum in your recording that needs to be noise cleaned. As this hum is from the start of your recording I do not know if it is your microphone or your computer generating it. If you click on the magnifying glass on the tool bar on the right side of the Audacity window and expand your recording so that 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 shows across the top of the recording window you will see in the silent areas of your recording the line is fuzzy where it should be a straight line. That is the noise in your recording. When noise cleaning you should aim to get that line straighter.

After noise cleaning you might need to Amplify your recording to increase your voice volume to get it within the acceptable range for Librivox readings.

0:26 – When reading the Introduction below the Magic Window I heard – "Everyday cooking" however the introduction says “Every-Day Cookery”
13:25 – stumble and repeat
14:46 – heard "white" text says "wire"
You need 5 seconds of silence at the end. Currently you have 3 so please add about 2 more seconds.

Has someone given you the link to a Checker Utility that was made for checking our recordings to see if they meet the specifications? Here is the link if you have not got it. https://cgjennings.ca/checker.html Once you have fixed these things in your recording try running your updated file through the Checker (you go to File and then browse to find where the file is located on your computer) and you should get a Pass. If you get a different status just look under the Validation tab to find out what needs to be fixed.

My headphones broke so I maneuvered the recording so I only recorded 1 bit...my headphone quality is absolutely TERRIBLE now.
(I just started a Solo project too, which is such a bummer...need to find new headphones!)

--Rachel--Dumbledore watched the doe fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.

youre right, i opened your recording in audacity and it looks like some kind of interference. when you record, can you see the waves? i always look at the track while i record to catch clipping etc. and this way you might be able to catch this immediately should it happen again.

no humming noise now, but when I ran it through the checker it told me that my volume was too low.

so I went back to the recording in audacity, increased the volume, (using amplify) but checker is still telling me it is too low, in fact however much I increase the volume, (to the point even of it sounding too loud in audacity), the volume level in checker doesn't change...

what am I doing wrong now?

Thank you for your patience with me and sorry for all the bother that this is causing.